He accompanied the "Carthage Eagles" to the Arab Cup quarter-finals, and he faces Qatar

“Al-Abyad” passes the “Wonders” group, despite the loss

  • Team goalkeeper Khaled Issa appeared at a good level.

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  • Tunisian female fans Azarn their country during the match.

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The national football team booked its place in the Arab Cup quarter-finals, despite losing 1-0 against Tunisia, yesterday, at Al Thumama Stadium in the Qatari capital, Doha, in the third and final round of Group Two competitions.

Tunisia topped the group with six points, followed by “Al-Abyad” with a goal difference, while Syria and Mauritania bid farewell to the competition in the same group, each with three points.

The second group matches witnessed many “wonderful” results, after the identity of the qualified teams remained stuck until the final whistle of the matches of the Emirates, Tunisia, Syria and Mauritania, where the four teams were candidates to qualify and exit at the same time.

The Tunisian team, the leader, started the tournament by defeating Mauritania 5-1, before losing to Syria 0-2, and concluded its matches with a victory with a clean goal, while Al-Abyad launched its matches by defeating Syria 2-1, and Mauritania with a clean goal, before losing to Tunisia with the result. itself.

For its part, Syria lost to the UAE and Mauritania, and beat Tunisia, and in turn, the Mauritanian team lost to Tunisia and the UAE, before concluding its participation by beating Syria 2-1, yesterday.

Despite the loss, Al-Abyad played a good match against a strong team.

In the quarter-finals, the team will meet Qatar, who topped Group A.

Tunisia's early goal, scored by Seif El-Din Jaziri in the 11th minute, confused goalkeeper Khaled Issa, but Al-Abyad attacked fiercely and forcefully in the second half, and pressed to create holes in Tunisia's defense, but was unsuccessful in scoring and reaching the net.

The national team's starting lineup witnessed the participation of striker Sebastien Tigali, for the first time, in the place of striker Ali Mabkhout, who missed the match.

The team played the same match as the previous squad that played the match against Mauritania, with some minor changes, with the participation of goalkeeper Khaled Issa for the first time in the starting lineup, while the defense line included Walid Abbas, Muhammad Al-Attas, Mahmoud Khamis and Bandar Al-Ahbabi, and in the middle Ali Salmin, Abdullah Ramadan, Tahnoun Al Zaabi, Kaio Kanido and Ali Saleh and Tigali are in the front line.

The coach of the national team, Marvik, made changes at the beginning of the second half, with the entry of Muhannad Al-Enezi, as a substitute for the injured Walid Abbas, while the team appeared in the second half in a different way from the one in the first half, and controlled the course of the game, taking advantage of Tunisia’s relative decline, and caused the movements of Kayo, Tahnoun and Ali Saleh and Tigali are a constant headache for Tunisia's goalkeeper.

The team had an opportunity to adjust through Mahmoud Khamis, who advanced to implement a direct free kick, which he fired in the manner of former Brazilian player Roberto Carlos, the Tunisian goalkeeper kept it away in the 91st minute.

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